Microsoft promoted this idea that F# is for mathematicians and engineers, so its no wonder that people pick this up. And I'm not sure who is pushing this idea that F# is not fine for OO work. It has all those features. So starting with F# as a "better C#" -- there's nothing wrong with that. Over time I think people will come to view OO as suboptimal, but in the mean time F# is just a better language to use than C#.
MS hasn't funded F# enough, and has crippled the marketing on it to continue to push C# rather than admit they've made mistakes. The tooling issues and other random incompatibilities are why I don't use it as much as I used to - it's too much friction.
MS hasn't funded F# enough, and has crippled the marketing on it to continue to push C# rather than admit they've made mistakes. The tooling issues and other random incompatibilities are why I don't use it as much as I used to - it's too much friction.